Apple A16 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8450 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3250MHz)
MediaTek Dimensity 8450 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3296 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
1441069
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+16%
1675507
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+62%
2627
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
1617
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+6%
6838
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
6406
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
1789
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+30%
2329
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
3460 MHz
Frequency
3250 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
4 nm
Process
4 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
24
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.3296 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.2
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.3
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W10
Model number
-
